Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a Standalone

2011-08-24 Thread dhk
Okay, thanks, it looks like I'll have to set up a mirror site on my laptop. Is there a good howto for this? How much space does it require? Thanks again, dhk On 08/12/2011 10:43 AM, Thanasis wrote: on 08/12/2011 05:08 PM Paul Hartman wrote the following: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:26 AM,

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a Standalone

2011-08-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:34:55 -0400, dhk wrote: Okay, thanks, it looks like I'll have to set up a mirror site on my laptop. Is there a good howto for this? How much space does it require? 1) NFS export $DISTDIR on server 2) Mount shared NFS dir on each client 3) Set DISTDIR to mounted share

[gentoo-user] Updating a Standalone

2011-08-12 Thread dhk
I have a Gentoo Box that is a standalone with no internet access. Is there a way I can update it by using my laptop? It would be nice to be able to sync a copy of my world list on my laptop without clobbering my laptop's world list. Then do a fetch for the standalone world and when on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a Standalone

2011-08-12 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 12.08.2011 11:58, schrieb dhk: I have a Gentoo Box that is a standalone with no internet access. Is there a way I can update it by using my laptop? It would be nice to be able to sync a copy of my world list on my laptop without clobbering my laptop's world list. Then do a fetch for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a Standalone

2011-08-12 Thread Thanasis
on 08/12/2011 12:58 PM dhk wrote the following: I have a Gentoo Box that is a standalone with no internet access. Is there a way I can update it by using my laptop? It would be nice to be able to sync a copy of my world list on my laptop without clobbering my laptop's world list. Then do a

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a Standalone

2011-08-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: Keep an updated image of the standalone on laptop, update it via chroot, and sync back to the standalone. This is what i came here to suggest. :) But I think it'll only work if the 2 machines are using compatible arch,

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating a Standalone

2011-08-12 Thread Thanasis
on 08/12/2011 05:08 PM Paul Hartman wrote the following: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: Keep an updated image of the standalone on laptop, update it via chroot, and sync back to the standalone. This is what i came here to suggest. :) But I think